179 File naming for healthy EPUBs

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If you work with EPUB files, you know how strict the file naming rules are. In this InDesign Secrets tutorial from Lynda.com, you'll learn about file naming for healthy EPUBs, the naming convention that will prevent problems with validation and learn where to get a handy script that will make renaming problem files a breeze.

- When you export a publication to reflowable EPUB,…the file names of any linked images…and other files make a difference.…If you open up the Links panel,…you'll see the file names of all the links…you've placed in here.…And what's going to give the EPUB problems…are any file names that use spaces…or punctuation marks, that kind of thing.…Very easy to get by with if you're used to doing…a printer PDF workflow,…but because these files are going to be converted…into HTML and CSS, they have very strict rules…about what kind of characters can be used in file names.…

And where this is going to catch you up…is when you try to validate the EPUB.…Let's just see what happens, we're going to…export this to EPUB and validate it…I'm gonna go up to the File menu,…and choose Export.…Make sure that you're choosing Reflowable EPUB.…History-of-art.epub, save it on the desktop.…It really does not make that much of a difference…for our purposes about the choices…that you make in this dialog box.…I am choosing EPUB 3.0 in case you're curious,…

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2/15/2018

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8/25/2011

In this series, David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción, co-hosts of the web's top resource for InDesign tips and tricks, InDesignSecrets.com, share some hidden and sometimes surprising workflow tips that will make working in InDesign more efficient and more fun. The course covers built-in timesaving features such as Quick Apply and auto-expanding text, but also little-known tricks, such as using the eyedropper to copy and paste character and paragraph text attributes and making accurate selections by selecting through or even into objects.

New techniques will be added to the collection every other week, so check back early and often. Find more tips and tricks at indesignsecrets.com.

Skill Level Intermediate

28h 53m

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